‘Los Angeles Times’ Owner’s Daughter Defends Not Making Presidential Endorsement: “Genocide Is The Line In The Sand”
deadline.comAs the Los Angeles Times faces an editorial exodus over the owner’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate, his daughter is defending the decision.
Politician and activist Nika Soon-Shiong expressed support for father Patrick Soon-Shiong‘s recent refusal to endorse Kamala Harris, whom she says is “overseeing a war on children” in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. “There is a lot of controversy and confusion over the LAT‘s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate.
I trust the Editorial Board’s judgment. For me, genocide is the line in the sand,” she began Thursday in a thread on X. As the platform notes in an additional context disclaimer, it was ultimately her father who decided not to endorse, and there was no indication that the Israel-Hamas war contributed to the decision.
Nika explained that her father served as an emergency surgeon in the 1976 Soweto uprising, in which at least 176 died protesting racial segregation amid South Africa’s Apartheid, which she compared to the “plausible genocide” in Gaza.
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